6 PREFACE. 
contribute my mite to the welfare of my fellow-citizens, and tb 
the general improvement of the country, I have undertaken this 
work, and arranged the matter according to the seasons of the year, 
that the reader may have an easy reference to the particular busi- 
ness to be performed in every month. By this means the subject 
becomes a daily amusement and study, applicable at the moment, 
and consequently leaving a lasting impression on the memoi*y; 
which, if attended to for a few years, may make any person who 
has a taste for admiring and enjoying the magnificence, beauties 
and bounties of Nature, in its vegetable productions, a complete 
Master of the Art, and if he pleases, his own Gardener. 
In writing this treatise, I have had recourse to the best publica- 
tions, American, English, French and Latin, lest any useful sug- 
gestions, or modern improvements in the art, should escape my no- 
tice or recollection; still keeping in view, not only the difference of 
climate, season, and the necessary modes of culture in foreign coun- 
tries, but also, in the extensive region of which the United States 
are composed. It is, however, probable, notwithstanding all my 
assiduity and care, in collecting as much information as possi- 
ble, with respect to the most firoper seasons for sowing particular 
kinds of seeds, Stc, in the remote parts of the Union., that I have 
iallen into some mistakes; for these, as well as typographical er- 
rors, to which a work of this kind is unavoidably subject, I solicit 
the reader's excuse; and shall consider myself under serious obliga- 
tions to those, whose personal friendship, or patriotism, shall induce 
tliem to inform me of any horticultural errors which I may have 
committed, or improvements that may be made; in order that the 
former be corrected, and the latter, if justified by experience, pub- 
lished in some future work, or edition of this. 
The culture and management of Grape-Vines, and all other 
kinds of fruit-trees, which can be cultivated with us to advantage, 
or even to indulge curiosity; the raising and planting of Thorn- 
quicks and other plants suitable for live-hedges, the cultivation 
of Liquorice, Rhubarb, Dyer's Madder, Weld or Dyer's Weed, 
Fuller's Teasel, Sea Kale {Crambe ?naritima), Cork-tree, Manna 
Ash, Tanner's Suniack (Rhus Coriaria), Paper Mulberry, Mul- 
berry-trees for feeding Silk-worms (and care of the insects,) with 
every other plant, not already common, which appeared to me of 
sufficient importance, either in a commercial, manufacturing, or 
ornamental point of view, or as affording any of the luxuries or ne- 
cessaries of life, have been treated of with due attention: and in 
order to accommodate the Agriculturist, I have given a classical ca- 
